Richard L. Peterson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The things that make me different are the things that make me.

  • Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

  • Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

  • Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

  • Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

  • A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

  • May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

  • No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

  • We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....

  • No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives